Fresno County Biographies

W. W. W. Hunter

Submitted by Sally Kaleta, June, 2007

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	W. W. W. Hunter, druggist of Madera, was born in Mariposa in 
1864. His father, W. W. Hunter, was a machinist, and emigrated from Pennsylvania 
to California in 1859, and for years was employed at his trade in the mines of 
Mariposa, Benton Mills, Washington Mines and Hites' Cove, and also employed in 
San Francisco and Sacramento for several years. He retired from the business in 
1887, and is now living a quiet life in Madera. Our subject was educated in the 
public schools of Mariposa County, and at Redwood City, San Mateo County, 
California, and at the age of seventeen years began the study of his profession 
in the drug store and under the preceptorship of Dr. J. T. Turner, of Mariposa, 
continuing in their employ until 1890, when he came to Madera and bought out the 
drug store of Dr. J. T. Surbaugh. Mr. Hunter is well versed in his profession, 
and the appreciation of the community is substantially demonstrated by his 
increasing business. The office of Dr. J. W. Cline is connected with the drug 
store, and the arrangement is of mutual advantage. Mr. Hunter was married at 
Mariposa, August 11, 1886, to Miss Louisa M. Bertosky, and the family has been 
increased and enlivened by the advent of two daughters, Alena Loretta and Gladys 
Hilda. 

Source: "The Memorial and Biographical History of the County of Fresno, Tulare 
and Kern, California," Lewis Publ. Co., 1892, p. 478.